Krupa N

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led cross-team delivery across 11+ teams at Confluent.
Achieved 99.99% availability at Google.
Delivered 5× cost reduction via serverless architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud and distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsJavaKafka

Other Skills

Apache KafkaCassandraZookeeperNginxHTTPData StructuresAlgorithmsAgile MethodologiesKanbanSoftware DevelopmentScalabilityLinuxXMLUnixGit

About

Senior Engineering leader building and scaling distributed platforms from 0→1 to enterprise scale. Leading cross-team delivery across 11+ teams at Confluent, driving hybrid-cloud platforms and multi-million-dollar revenue impact. Previously at Google, built global control planes, achieved 99.99% availability, and delivered 5× cost reduction via server less, multi-tenant architectures. Known for building high-autonomy, high-growth teams with strong execution discipline.

Experience

17 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Leader

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Shaping the Hybrid Cloud Product https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/usm/overview.html

JavaApache KafkaCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Google

Technical Lead

Nov 2020 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sahaj software solutions

Architect

May 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Oracle

Principal Member of the Technical Staff Oracle CASB

Sep 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Involved in the design,architecture & implementation of Slack Application integration for the Cloud access security broker product. Implemented asynchronous event processing using Kafka.
Lead the Customer Enhancements track for new feature requirements. This involved managing the scrum team, interfacing with Product management/stakeholders for gathering requirements and leading the overall technical architecture.
Technologies : Java,Kafka,Cassandra

JavaKafkaCassandra

Apigee

Senior Engineer/Engineering Manager

Aug 2012 – Aug 2016 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working on building a Java Service that improves the Signup Process for Apigee products.
Designed a notification system for alerting SSL Certificate expiry.
Improvements in the Apigee Gateway Core SSL layer.
Fixed numerous cryptic issues related to memory leaks/performance.
Actively involved in hiring Engineering talent
Technologies : Zookeeper,Cassandra,Nginx

ZookeeperCassandraNginxJava

Netapp

Member technical staff

Jan 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Akamai

Software Engineer

Apr 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked in Performance Analytics Team which built a product known as Site-analyzer to analyze the performance of websites.
Customized this browser like tool to work on a distributed network.
This tool acts as a remote client executing web page load tests , reporting a variety of metrics about the page load.